Bonus: LA Wildfires - Parenting Through Crisis
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna come to you in real time to check in during the wildfires in Los Angeles. They provide updates about how they are doing during their city's crisis and have an insightful conversation with Gia Gambaro Blount, a local child development expert and parenting coach. about parenting during and after emergencies. Gia is a highly-regarded parenting expert in one of the areas that are being hit hardest by the devastation - Pasadena and Altadena - and she provides wisdom that not only comes from her years of expertise in child development but also as a parent who lives in the area and is personally affected by it as well.
Important Links:
-Our list of resources for victims of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires
-Our list of how to help and donate to support victims of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires
-Gia Gambaro Blount's Instagram - Follow Gia to get daily advice and wisdom about parenting through crisis (and more)
-Big Fat Positive's Facebook Community Group - A supportive community that has shown compassion for and interest in helping parents and families in need at this time (plus ongoing conversations and support about parenting in general
Topics Discussed in This Episode:
-How the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires are affecting parents
-How to parent your child during a crisis
-Advice from a local parenting expert who is actively helping parents and families navigate this crisis
-How to handle emergencies when you're a parent
-How to talk to your child about catastrophic events
-How to help your child process trauma after the emergency is over
-How to help victims of the Los Angeles fires
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to a special bonus episode of Big Fat Positive. In this bonus episode, |
| 0:08.4 | Shauna and I are going to check in about our experiences with the 2025 fires in Los Angeles. |
| 0:13.4 | And we're going to hear from parenting coach and child development expert, Gia Gamarro Blunt, |
| 0:18.0 | about how to talk to your kids and take care of yourself during |
| 0:21.1 | emergencies. Let's get started. Hi, Shauna. Hello. Well, I didn't think we'd be recording a |
| 0:28.4 | bonus episode this week, but here we are. Mm-hmm. Here we are. So we're recording on Saturday, |
| 0:35.2 | January 11th, 2025. It's the morning, and for the last four days or so, |
| 0:41.7 | Los Angeles has experienced some absolutely horrific and devastating fires. The two biggest ones are |
| 0:48.3 | the Palisades fires that are burning in the west side of Los Angeles, and then the |
| 0:53.2 | Eaton fire, which took place in Altadena and Pasadena, mainly. On the east side of Los Angeles and then the Eaton Fire, which took place in |
| 0:55.1 | Altadena and Pasadena mainly on the east side of Los Angeles. And we've gotten so many messages |
| 1:00.9 | from our listeners, people wondering if we're okay. So we really wanted to do this bonus episode. |
| 1:06.5 | First of all, just to check in and let you know that we are okay and tell you a little bit about |
| 1:11.2 | what we did during the fires and our experiences. But more so, we wanted to bring on Gia Gambara Blunt, |
| 1:17.0 | who our listeners know as a parenting coach and child development expert. She's also the co-author |
| 1:22.1 | of my potty training book. So she'll be on in a bit. But first, Shana, I thought we should just check in |
| 1:27.1 | and let our listeners know what our experience of this week has been like and how the fires have affected us. |
| 1:32.5 | That's a good idea. Yeah. And thank you so much to all of our listeners who've been reaching out and showing concern and just the outpouring of love and stuff from our community has been really, really wonderful. |
| 1:45.8 | So thank you for that. So Laura, I think things really started getting bad maybe Monday afternoon. |
| 1:51.7 | The winds really started picking up. We got notices that there was going to be severe weather alerts with massive winds with gusts up to 100 miles an hour. |
| 2:01.5 | And of course, with these Santa Ana winds, our city's always at risk of fires. |
| 2:06.8 | Listeners who've listened to the show for a long time may remember that in 2019, my |
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